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Preston Parks and Green Spaces Strategy PRESTON PARKS AND GREEN SPACES STRATEGY 2021-2031 QUALITY, INTEGRITY, PROFESSIONALISM Knight, Kavanagh & Page Ltd Company No: 9145032 (England) MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS Registered Office: 1 -2 Frecheville Court, off Knowsley Street, Bury BL9 0UF T: 0161 764 7040 E: [email protected] www.kkp.co.uk Quality assurance Name Date Report origination Paul Barrett / Chris MacFarlane December 2020 Client comments PCC January/February 2021 Final draft Paul Barrett / Chris MacFarlane April 2021 Quality control John Eady April 2021 CONTENTS CONTENTS ...................................................................................................................... 3 1.0 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 1 2.0 LOCAL CONTEXT ...................................................................................................... 2 3.0 VISION ....................................................................................................................... 5 4.0 STRATEGY OBJECTIVES ......................................................................................... 7 5.0 SITE PRIORITIES ...................................................................................................... 8 6.0 ALLOTMENTS REVIEW ........................................................................................... 16 7.0 TREE MANAGEMENT .............................................................................................. 17 8.0 PLAY AREA MANAGEMENT ................................................................................... 18 PRESTON PARKS AND GREEN SPACES STRATEGY 2021-2031 FOREWORD Preston’s Parks have national, regional and local significance. There are over 200 parks and green spaces including 8 major sites equating to over 700 hectares. In a publication from 1991, Hazel Conway’s book ‘People’s Parks’ she identified Moor Park as the first (municipal) park to be established in an industrial town. It is a Grade II* park listed as a ‘Registered Park and Garden’ by Historic England. They describe it as ‘A public park laid out in 1833-5 and improved by Edward Milner in the 1860s.’ During the Cotton Famine of the early 1860s, the Town Council commissioned Edward Milner (1819-94) to prepare a report on Preston's parks. This was part of a wider scheme to assist out-of-work cotton operatives by employing them to carry out public works, financial support coming from the Public Works Loan Commissioners. Milner submitted proposals in February 1864 and was subsequently invited to design and oversee the building of two new parks, Avenham and Miller Parks, and to improve Moor Park. Avenham Park and Miller Park are adjoining parks on the bank of the River Ribble, both are Grade II* listed parks. Haslam Park is a Grade II listed park and is described as ‘A municipal park, opened to the public in 1910, with design elements provided shortly afterwards by the landscape architect Thomas H Mawson.’ To further quote Hazel Conway ‘Historic parks were designed to improve the urban environment in many ways: financially by raising the value of the property around them; practically, by cleaning the air and being the lungs for the city; physically, by providing a place for sport and exercise; and psychologically, by providing a place where people could relax and enjoy the sight of trees and grass’ We have a long and strong tradition of public parks in Preston, and this quotation remains true today in all our parks, be they nationally important parks, or small ‘pocket’ parks found just around the corner from where we live. We particularly recognise and value the role that they continue to play in contributing to people’s physical and mental health, through sport and exercise, a chance to meet friends or simple enjoyment of the natural environment. This is especially true during the Covid Pandemic when parks and open spaces have been needed and used more than ever. Pressure on funding and resources for parks and green spaces has been significant for some time now. But we believe that we have continued to manage and maintain parks and green spaces to a high standard with the resources available to us. Councillor Robert Boswell, Cabinet Member for the Environment PRESTON PARKS AND GREEN SPACES STRATEGY 2021-2031 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Preston parks and open green spaces are the green lungs of the City, providing many benefits for residents and visitors. These range from providing opportunity to exercise to encouraging people to develop news skills supporting them with future career ambitions. This Strategy lists a series of objectives designed to improve all sites, underpinned by a vision and a list of ambitions, which the City Council will aim to deliver over the next ten years. To determine these objectives, consultation was undertaken with a variety of key stakeholders, including Council officers, park stakeholders and members of the public. Consultation findings are reflected within the report. The objectives focus on improving and maintaining the eight key park sites in the Authority, making recommendations on how use of allotments can be maximised, considering how best to enhance tree coverage across the City and ensuring that biodiversity (confirming the Council’s climate change priorities) is at the core of any future decision making. The key recommendations emanating from the strategy are to: Provide an appropriate maintenance programme for all park sites and green spaces. Develop masterplans for the remaining six park sites, delivering the projects listed. Continue to seek and secure external funding to support delivery of future projects. Ensure that biodiversity underpins all future decision making. Commission a tree strategy to support a healthy tree population across the City. Ensure that allotments remain accessible and of the highest quality, supporting the City’s communities. PRESTON PARKS AND GREEN SPACES STRATEGY 2021-2031 1.0 INTRODUCTION Preston’s parks and green spaces provide access to a wide range of positive activities for people of all ages throughout the City. In total, there are over 200 parks and green spaces equating to over 700 hectares1. They are the green lungs which help the city to breath, ensuring that all residents and visitors have a safe space to enjoy, share and develop. They provide places for people to exercise, play, and relax as well as playing an important role in providing wildlife habitats, flood protection and climate change resilience. From sharing a coffee with friends in Avenham Park to creating a new pond in Fishwick Local Nature Reserve: Preston’s parks help make the City a special place, loved and appreciated by residents and visitors alike. The intention is this Strategy will ensure that these parks remain special places, for current and future generations. To help its parks achieve their full potential, this Strategy outlines the Council’s priorities for eight strategic sites over the next ten years. These are: Ashton Park Avenham and Miller Parks Grange Park and Grange Valley Haslam Park and Local Nature Reserve London Road Recreation Ground and Fishwick Local Nature Reserve Moor Park Ribbleton (Waverley) Park Winckley Square Gardens The location and quality of all known green spaces across the City are set out as part of the Preston Open Space Study. Structure of the Strategy The following sections form the Parks and Green Spaces Strategy for Preston. It has been shaped via consultation with stakeholders and residents from across the City. It outlines the Council’s vision and ambitions for parks and green spaces, which aligned with its corporate priorities, in order to shape a truly vibrant city. It also highlights the wider strategic links with the Council’s planning, health and well-being, climate change, green infrastructure initiatives and future funding opportunities. A series of objectives are formed from the vision and ambitions designed to achieve the best parks for the people of Preston. 1 Central Lancashire Playing Pitch & Open Spaces Strategy: Preston Open Space Study (2019) July 2021 1 PRESTON PARKS AND GREEN SPACES STRATEGY 2021-2031 2.0 LOCAL CONTEXT Before the Strategy details options for the respective sites, it is important to provide some context to help inform some of the ambitions listed later. The three largest ‘strategic parks’ are Ashton, Haslam and Moor parks. Avenham and Miller parks, which are located in the south of the Authority, runs parallel to the River Ribble, and have the Guild Wheel (an orbital cycle route around the city) running through them. Sites such as London Road Recreational Ground and Haslam Park also have designated local nature reserves adjacent or within them. Figure 2.1: Location of all eight strategic sites in Preston Health deprivation Health deprivation relates to levels of potential premature death and impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health. Most Preston parks (in particular those at Grange and Ribbleton (Waverley) are located in or adjacent to areas of high health deprivation. Figure 2.2: Areas of high health deprivation across the City July 2021 2 PRESTON PARKS AND GREEN SPACES STRATEGY 2021-2031 This Strategy acknowledges and responds to this and is designed to ensure that parks, not only remain accessible to all local residents, but can also offer programmes and activities to help improve health in these local areas. Accessibility Figure 2.3 illustrates the percentage of residents which lives within a one-mile radial of each site,
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